290 THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINN^US. 



He was encouraged in culling flowers, examining plants, &c, &cc. And 

 these occupations proved both grateful and pleasant to the juvenile 

 student. 



In order to regulate his occupations, to form his mind, and his 

 natural capacities, he was early put under the care of private tutors. 

 His father chose for this purpose, the most hopeful young men who 

 then studied at Upsal. These were Loe fling, Falk, and Ro- 

 LANDERj whom LiNNiEUs aftcrwards recommended to go out on 

 voyages of discovery, and some of whom made a most fatal exit. 

 They were chiefly direfted to impart to their pupil the knowledge of 

 the language of the learned world, and of the technical terms of the 

 .science which he studied. From the habitual pra6lice of conversing in 

 Latin, he soon learned to talk that language with much fluency, and 

 all his discourses being constantly dire6led to objefts of natural history^ 

 he of course, could not but acquire a great knowledge of natural 

 produftions*. Already in the tenth year of his age he knew most of 

 the plants in the botanical garden at Upsak and assigned to them their 

 right names. • 



His early distinftion^ and the authority and influence of his father, 

 procured him likewise early honours and dignities. He already as- 

 cended the first step of literary greatness in his eighteenth year, b,ein^ 

 appointed demonstrator in the botartical garden at Upsal. Before him, 

 no such academical charge existed in that University. At twenty-one 

 he appeared as an author, by publishing the beginning of his descrip- 



* In his epistolary style, and on other occasions, when he expressed liimself with quickness, 

 his Latin was as incorredl as his father's. The hand which lie wrote was somewhat larger, 

 but resembled much in other respefts that which his father wrote, His coat of arms did not 

 bear the motto ; Famam Extendere Failis. 



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